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  2. Hip roof - Wikipedia

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    Hip roof. A hip roof, hip-roof[1] or hipped roof, is a type of roof where all sides slope downward to the walls, usually with a fairly gentle slope, with variants including tented roofs and others. [2] Thus, a hipped roof has no gables or other vertical sides to the roof. A square hip roof is shaped like a pyramid.

  3. Mansard roof - Wikipedia

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    A mansard roof on the Château de Dampierre, by Jules Hardouin-Mansart, great-nephew of François Mansart. A mansard or mansard roof (also called French roof or curb roof) is a multi-sided gambrel-style hip roof characterised by two slopes on each of its sides, with the lower slope at a steeper angle than the upper, and often punctured by dormer windows.

  4. List of roof shapes - Wikipedia

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    East Asian hip-and-gable roof; Mokoshi: A Japanese decorative pent roof; Pavilion roof : A low-pitched roof hipped equally on all sides and centered over a square or regular polygonal floor plan. [10] The sloping sides rise to a peak. For steep tower roof variants use Pyramid roof. Pyramid roof: A steep hip roof on a square building.

  5. Hammerbeam roof - Wikipedia

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    A hammer-beam is a form of timber roof truss, allowing a hammerbeam roof to span greater than the length of any individual piece of timber.In place of a normal tie beam spanning the entire width of the roof, short beams – the hammer beams – are supported by curved braces from the wall, and hammer posts or arch-braces are built on top to support the rafters and typically a collar beam.

  6. East Asian hip-and-gable roof - Wikipedia

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    In China, the hip-and-gable roof style, also known as the xieshan roof style, originated in the Eastern Han dynasty as an adaptation of the hip roof. It was mainly applied in the construction of palaces, temples, gardens and other buildings with official functions. In contemporary times, it is still widely used in Buddhist and Taoist temples ...

  7. Gambrel - Wikipedia

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    Gambrel. A gambrel or gambrel roof is a usually symmetrical two-sided roof with two slopes on each side. The upper slope is positioned at a shallow angle, while the lower slope is steep. This design provides the advantages of a sloped roof while maximizing headroom inside the building's upper level and shortening what would otherwise be a tall ...

  8. Domestic roof construction - Wikipedia

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    Ctrs. means centers, a typical line to which carpenters layout framing. Domestic roof construction is the framing and roof covering which is found on most detached houses in cold and temperate climates. [1] Such roofs are built with mostly timber, take a number of different shapes, and are covered with a variety of materials.

  9. Imperial Crown Style - Wikipedia

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    Imperial Crown Style. The Imperial Crown Style (帝冠様式, teikan yōshiki) of Japanese architecture developed during the Japanese Empire in the early twentieth century. The style is identified by Japanese-style roofing on top of Neoclassical styled buildings; [1] and can have a centrally elevated structure with a pyramidal hip roof.

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